Hi I am back for just a little while, I guess you forgot about me :D I have been busy with school and my two NCIS fics, so I put this on hold. I don't know when I will upload next time. Let's just say it depends on how many reviews I get. So this chapter is set directly after the previous one.
In the room upstairs the two girls sat quiet for a while before Aelphaba said: "Have you heard this story before?"
"No," Galinda answered still in shock.
"So I guess I am not the only one that is kept in the dark by my parents," Aelphaba said.
"I think she doesn't want to tell us mostly because she wants us to think of the world as a better place," Galinda said.
"You are probably right," Aelphaba admitted.
"You don't seem to happy with your parents," Galinda said. Aelphaba shook her head: "They have no time for me anymore." What Aelphaba left out of this was that the reason they had no time was because of Galinda's mother.
"But you must know that they love you and that they are working to make it better for you," Galinda said.
"Well maybe your mother does it because she loves you, but my mother hasn't been happy in a very long time. She tries to act happy for me but it doesn't work."
"But she still loves you," Galinda said.
"Yes but neither her nor my father cares to show it," Aelphaba said.
"Have you tried to tell them how you feel?" That question was followed by a silence while Aelphaba was thinking.
"No," she then answered.
"Well as soon as my mother works out the spell you can go home and tell them."
Aelphaba nodded and smiled; "Thank you," she said.
"You're welcome."
"How long will it take for your mother to fix that spell?" Aelphaba asked. Galinda thought for a while before answering.
"Well I guess it could take anything from two days to three months. But it depends on if she finds the right books and the right information. Aelphaba nodded.
"So would you like me to give you a tour of Kiamo Ko," Galinda asked.
"Yes, I would love too," Aelphaba said. The girls rose and went out the door.
"So this is the second of four floors. That is not counting the towers. On this floor we have Nessie's room, dad's study, his old bedroom and mom's bathroom."
"Why is it your mother's?" Aelphaba asked slightly confused.
"She likes swimming and the bath down there is like a small lake, but really the bath is on the ground floor but the door is over there," Galinda said and pointed at a large door in the end of the corridor.
"If you follow me," Galinda said and went up the stairs to the next floor. "Up here we have my parents bedroom, the northern and the western library and the room that belonged to my dad's sister when the Tiggular family was here during the summers."
The two girls went up another floor and stopped in front of a big door.
"This is my mom's study but it's locked and she never uses it, over there is the southern library and that corridor leads to the eastern library."
"Why do you have so many libraries?" Aelphaba asked.
"I don't know they were here before my mother came to live here so there must have been somebody in the Tiggular family that did read, but I don't really know."
"We don't have a single library in our house."
"Well maybe your parents doesn't like reading as much as my mother," Galinda said.
"I have never seen them touch a book," Aelphaba said with a laugh.
"Look down there," Galinda said and pointed down a corridor. The corridor was blocked with bricks.
"What happened there?" Aelphaba asked.
"That used to be the eastern tower, it fell apart the same day my mother's sister died," Galinda said.
"Did your mother have a sister?" Aelphaba asked surprised.
"Yes but I barely know anything about her except that her name was Nessarose," Galinda said.
"She died because of a munchkin rebellion almost fourteen years ago," the girl's heard behind them. They turned to see Elphaba standing behind looking down the corridor.
"Why was she in a rebellion?" Galinda asked.
"She wasn't in the rebellion the rebellion was against her," Elphaba said. "We should sit down this is going to be a long story." She started to chant and three chairs appeared out of nowhere.
"Why did they rebel against her?" Aelphaba asked.
"Nessa was a very selfish person. You see when she was born, her legs were tangled and she was crippled for life. Her birth killed our mother and left our father heartbroken. Nessa inherited our father's taste for religion. She was his pet and he spoiled her. She couldn't do anything on her own, so it was my job to watch after her day and night. Sometimes I hated her for it but I knew that she couldn't take care of herself. When she got older she fell in love with a munchkin boy named Boq, but he didn't love her back. But he was weak hearted so he pretended to love her back and he took care of her. Then she became governor of munchkinland and everything went horribly awry. Nessarose started bossing everything around as she had done with our father and me. She enslaved Boq and kept him as her servant. But he escaped and raised a rebellion. Nessarose died that night." Elphaba had tears in her eyes, but she kept on telling the story; "Nessa was a victim in a way, but that doesn't right her wrongs, I just wished I could have helped her.
"Did she ever get to walk?" Galinda asked.
" Yes, I gave her the ability to walk, it was right after I gave birth to you, I went to Colwen Grounds and put a spell on her beloved slippers." Elphaba said. "The last days she actually could walk. When the tower fell in I flew to Colwen Grounds only to find the house burned down and all I could find were her slippers.
It was totally quiet until Elphaba said; "Do you two want to come up to my tower because I need your help." Aelphaba looked over at Galinda who had already nodded and then she turned to Elphaba and said; "Why not."
The three rose and Elphaba clapped her hands and the chairs disappeared. They went down the corridor and then up the stairs.
The first thing Aelphaba saw when she got into the tower was the view. Through the large windows you could see the Great Kells stretching out over the land. Snow covered tops sparkled in the sunshine.
"It' is a beautiful view isn't it," Aelphaba heard the witch say. She just nodded in respond.
"Galinda, can you fetch the three books on that chair over there?" Elphaba said. Aelphaba looked amazed around the room. There were books, papers and strange things everywhere. It looked like the antiquity shops her mother used to visit.
"Aelphaba can you help me over here?" Galinda asked. Aelphaba went over to the dark-haired girl.
"Can you hold this?" she asked and pointed at a gigantic book.
"Sure," Aelphaba said and lifted it. It weighed a lot.
"You can take it over here," Elphaba told her. Aelphaba brought the book to the desk and Elphaba started flipping through the pages.
"Galinda, can you fetch me the Grimmere?" Elphaba asked.
"Where is it?"
"In the shelf I think," Elphaba said.
"Ohh, I found it," Galinda said. Aelphaba watched as Elphaba and Galinda ran past each other fetching papers and books from the different shelfs in the room.
"Come and look at this Aelphaba," Galinda said. "If you look at this page you see that the writer has written about the human mind and the interesting part is where he writes about the memory. You see his very detailed description of how it works.
"And how are you going to fix this?" Aelphaba asked.
"That is what I don't know yet, so it can take a while but if you two can help me it will go easier," the green witch said.
"What can I do?" Aelphaba asked. Elphaba handed the girl an old book.
"You can read that, if you find anything interesting just tell us." Aelphaba nodded and sat down on a chair and started reading. Elphaba and Galinga kept on running around fetching this and doing that.
The three were busy in the tower until Fiyero came up.
"Fae, you should light some candles up here, it is getting dark," he said. "Dinner is ready too so if you come downstairs it would be good. The group left the tower to join Nessie for dinner.
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